Interim Superintendent Joseph Cassimere said the St. Landry Parish School System is projected to finish out the 2012-13 school year with a $4.5 million surplus.

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In what could be a dramatic rebound from a year ago, the St. Landry Parish School System is projected to finish out the 2012-13 school year with a $4.5 million surplus.

Interim Superintendent Joseph Cassimere said he has been running numbers on the budget all year and that he first asked Finance Supervisor Tressa Miller to run projections in January. Repeated number crunches indicate that the system will finish in the black even when grants and borrowed money are taken out of the equation.

The year's budget had originally predicted the system would have to borrow around $1 million to break even ...